After Soccer Ball Slams into Seagull, Watch a Player Use CPR to Gently Revive it (WATCH)
A soccer player for an amateur league team in Istanbul had to unexpectedly deputize as an emergency veterinarian during a match in the Turkish city last weekend. The goalkeeper for a team playing in red went to boot the ball upfield, but instead left the entire pitch in shock when the ball traveled a mere […]
Bride Goes Viral on Wedding Night Dancing While Doing Vital Cystic Fibrosis Treatment (WATCH)
A bride who was filmed dancing at her wedding reception while undergoing treatment for cystic fibrosis has gone viral. “CF doesn’t stop no party ✨” was Dannika Evans’ opinion when she posted the video to her TikTok account, where she was doing her best to dance while wearing a special oscillation vest with a nebulizer […]
5,000-yo Bacteria Shows Antibiotic Resistance Is Ancient, Which May Help Us to Combat it
Long before antibiotics were invented, biotics—i.e. bacteria—had developed resistance to them. When researchers examined a bacterial strain called Psychrobacter discovered in 5,000-year-old layers of cave ice, they found it was resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. Yet it also showed promising enzymatic activities and could inhibit the growth of ‘superbugs’ resistant to multiple antibiotics, and besides […]
Good Samaritans Sprang into Action to Save Baby That Fell into Lake Michigan
From Chicago comes the story of a pair of heroes rescuing an infant that had been blown into Lake Michigan. 30-year-old Lio Cundiff was on the phone with his aunt at Belmont Harbor when he felt the wind pick up fiercely, followed by a bloodcurdling scream from a woman close by. Cundiff knew exactly what […]
Abandoned Las Vegas Airport Dog Finds a Forever Home with the Officer Who Saved Him
A little goldendoodle has a brighter future ahead of him after abusive treatment by his owner saw her arrested, and an officer leap at the chance to adopt. The story must, unfortunately, include some rather ugly details before one can salute Officer Skeeter Black for his compassion towards animals. It begins on February 2nd at […]
Mountain Rescue Script Flipped as Hiker Saves Lost Dog Instead of a Dog Saving Hiker
In what was noted to be a bit of a reversal of traditional roles, a dog was rescued by mountaineers after spending a frigid night in a hollow below a mountaintop. Five dogs and four hikers were approaching the summit of Fionn Bheinn in the Scottish Highlands near Achnasheen recently, when their dogs fell through […]
Watch Thai Cops Literally Go ‘Undercover’ Dancing as a Lion to Nab Suspect at Lunar New Year Fest
From Thailand comes a story that’s pure Hollywood: police going undercover as festival lion dancers to nab a suspected art thief. Dressed as the rump and head of a large Asian lion costume during Lunar New Year festivities, the police sprang upon the suspect and took him into custody, phone cameras mercifully recorded. Bangkok police […]
Mysterious ‘Hero’ Dog Leads Police Straight to Missing 3-year-old Officer Says in Body Cam Video
A police officer and self-described “dog guy,” hooked his own instincts up to those of a local dog to find a missing 3-year-old in Kentucky. There was a drone and helicopter in the air and a half-dozen officers from the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department scouring the immediate location of a missing persons call on January […]
‘Mushroom Mining’ Could Be Cheap Way to Recover Rare Earth Minerals from Industrial Waste
Decades of underinvestment in mining and refining across Europe and North America has landed the manufacturing sector in a problem, which a group of scientists believe can be helped by mushrooms rather than excavators. One must have been living under a rock not to have recently read the terms “critical minerals” or “rare earth elements.” […]
Volunteers Save 51 Dogs in Large-Scale Operation Following Arkansas Shelter Collapse
From Arkansas comes the story of a huge animal rescue operation of 51 dogs trapped in a derelict shelter. Headquartered in neighboring Nashville, the Animal Rescue Corps (ARC) received information about a nonprofit dog rescue in Ashdown, Arkansas, where an acrimonious divorce between the shelter’s owners left the dogs caught in the crossfire. Much like […]